Motivational Quotes

Success

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Success

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

Ruskin, John

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.

Oprah Winfrey

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Collier, Robert

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If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.

Herzog, Raymond

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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.

Whitman, Howard

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

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If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

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The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Little, Malcolm. W.

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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is more important to be of service than successful.

Kennedy Jr., Robert

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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Banks, Harry F.

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

Larry Page

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Irving Berlin

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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Mizner, Wilson

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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Emily Dickinson

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Follin, G. W.

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.

Truism, Goldstein S.

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When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Backus, Jim

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Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.

Wooden, John

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Allen, James